Draft CL Draft Sign-up Thread and Discussion

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Champions League Draft Selection (No Discussions)

The Draft discussions thread https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/cl-draft-sign-up-thread-and-discussion.36173/ Rd. Riou JuanM Beard +Gooner416 A_G jones + albakos pigge Uncle Good+ SA Gunner 1 Emmanuel Eboue (ARS - 2005/06) Cristiano Ronaldo (RMA - 2013/14) Lionel Messi (BAR - 2010/11)...

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• The idea is to pick a team of 11 players from the Champions League era
• You will be looking to pick the best players you possibly can for your team for all areas: goalkeeper, defenders, midfielders and attackers
• The player is picked based upon their performances at their time for the season you chose him for (i.e. if you pick Andriy Shevchenko for AC Milan, his form at Kiev and Chelsea does NOT come into the equation during the competition).
• You need to select at least one player from the top 5 league in Europe: Premier League (England), La Liga (Spain), Seria A (Italy), Bundesliga (Germany) and Ligue 1 (France).
• For the season that the player is picked, he must have reached at least the quarter final stage of the competition
• Each player, must have played in at least one Champions League final.
• Number 1 gets first pick, Number 2 gets second pick, Number 3 gets third pick and so on....
• When offline, each member will get 2 hours to make their pick, if you miss the window then your pick will be chosen by the Rexdomizer ™.
• If the next picker is online and active in discussion he has only 20 minutes to make his pick
• The game will be frozen each night at 9pm GMT and resume at 9am GMT the following morning. You are still free to make your pick in this period if you want to but are under no obligation to do so.
• The draft order will be drawn at random and will follow the 3rd round reverse snake format. So the same as last time where we flip the order after the second round. This should stop anyone building up an unfair advantage by going first.
• The season of your player must have reached one of the below stages depending on when that season falls...

Prior to 1994-95: Quarter finals
1994-95 to 1998-99: Semi finals
1999-2000 to 2002-03: 2nd group stage
2003-04 to present day: Quarter finals

• AGAIN, You need to draft a starting XI and five outfield substitutes. The 17th round will consist of backup goalkeepers. You have to draft one Goalkeeper in the first 11 rounds.

That’s it for now. The game will hopefully start at 12 noon GMT on Thursday. That should give everyone enough time to figure out the rules and make plans. We may start earlier depending on sign up.

As I’ve said above there will be a definitive result this time! I’ve set up a custom league ready to be simulated, I just have to add your players once selected and fingers crossed we’ll have the results and champion before the Leeds match

Thanks everyone and enjoy the game!

 

[albakos]

Yeah @pigge can I recommend changing to 2001/02?

He didn’t play in the CL in 99/00 and was bounced in the group stage in 2000/01

He scored THAT goal for Real v. Leverkusen in 2002

 

[pigge]

Yeah @pigge can I recommend changing to 2001/02?

He didn’t play in the CL in 99/00 and was bounced in the group stage in 2000/01

Yeah i forgot it was only CL performance, not the entire year! I would like to change if that is ok with everyone! he was argubly better 02/03 though so i'd pick that if i can

 

[Rex Stone]

He scored THAT goal for Real v. Leverkusen in 2002

2nd best goal in a CL final I’ve ever seen

 

[Rex Stone]

Yeah i forgot it was only CL performance, not the entire year! I would like to change if that is ok with everyone! he was argubly better 02/03 though so i'd pick that if i can

Yeah @albakos not a big deal imo so go for 2002/03

 

[2Smokeyy]

I was surprised when I saw @pigge not go for Zidane 02/03 initially. Definitely his best season.

 

[albakos]

2nd best goal in a CL final I’ve ever seen

Which one is the 1st

Also, @pigge Zidane scored this goal in 2001/02 season.

On 2003 AC Milan won it on pens vs. Juve.

 

[Rex Stone]

Which one is the 1st

Also, @pigge Zidane scored this goal in 2001/02 season.

On 2003 AC Milan won it on pens vs. Juve.

Not saying. Don’t want to give away

You don’t have to pick a player from the season they made the final as long as they got there once in another year.

If he thinks Zizou was better in 2002/03 it’s still valid.

 

[Juan Matas Beard]

Which one is the 1st

 

[A_G]

Oxeki picking next, now the fun begins

 

[Rex Stone]

Was struggling to choose an Henry season.

Stuck between 2003, 2004 and 2006.

1) Hatty against Roma in 2nd group stage
2) Hatty in the San Siro
3) Goals in the Bernabeu and against Juventus

 

[SA Gunner]

Was struggling to choose an Henry season.

Stuck between 2003, 2004 and 2006.

1) Hatty against Roma in 2nd group stage
2) Hatty in the San Siro
3) Goals in the Bernabeu and against Juventus

As you said in the rules, for me its not about what happened in the CL that season, but rather the quality of the player.

For me, Henry was at his absolute peak around 2001-2004. Sublime player.

 

[pigge]

Which one is the 1st

Also, @pigge Zidane scored this goal in 2001/02 season.

On 2003 AC Milan won it on pens vs. Juve.

ah fake advertisement, i'll take it.
Man was on fire 02/03 though. almost a g/a per 90

 

[Rex Stone]

As you said in the rules, for me its not about what happened in the CL that season, but rather the quality of the player.

For me, Henry was at his absolute peak around 2001-2004. Sublime player.

Yeah very true. Didn’t watch football in the season you picked him but from what I’ve seen you could pick so many.

So glad he won one in the end even if it wasn’t with us. Arsenal GOAT.

 

[pigge]

As you said in the rules, for me its not about what happened in the CL that season, but rather the quality of the player.

For me, Henry was at his absolute peak around 2001-2004. Sublime player.

I Thought it said you were supposed to pick a season and not base it on his entire career? Maybe i misunderstood though

""""
1) You pick a single year’s version of a player from 1992/93 to 2022/23. For example (Steve Finnan 2004/05)

We’re NOT judging players on overall careers, just the Champions League that you’ve selected them from.
""""

 

[SA Gunner]

I Thought it said you were supposed to pick a season and not base it on his entire career? Maybe i misunderstood though

""""
1) You pick a single year’s version of a player from 1992/93 to 2022/23. For example (Steve Finnan 2004/05)

We’re NOT judging players on overall careers, just the Champions League that you’ve selected them from.
""""

Oops, missed that last part then.

Ill make the exception though. 7 goals in 12 games in the CL is good enough for us

 

[Rex Stone]

Oops, missed that last part then.

Ill make the exception though. 7 goals in 12 games in the CL is good enough for us

Yeah as you’ve said it doesn’t really matter with Titi.

You can pick any vintage and it’s likely to be incredible.

 

[Rex Stone]

@Oxeki surely it had to be 2013/14? Better record and more games?

Scored the winning goal then as well.

 

[Oxeki]

@Oxeki surely it had to be 2013/14? Better record and more games?

Scored the winning goal then as well.

I picked 2013/2014 Bale

 

[Farzad Stoned]

@Rex Bezos am after Sapient or Bob? And does last guy in round get a double pick?

 

[albakos]

I picked 2013/2013 Bale

@Oxeki strikes again !!!